On Mac OS X, I also had to install the "elementtree" python module I used 1.2.6 (http://effbot.org/media/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.tar.gz)

I want to use this program but pleas explain with details how to install it and make it work, im a noob at command prompt!

How can I get this to work with geektools?

Download the python modules required, extract them and then run the following command for each module: python setup.py install

It appears that gcalcli doesn't work through a proxy. I set HTTP_PROXY, http_proxy , and get a failed to authenticate error

I don't know why the proxy stuff doesn't work for you. I've tested http proxy against my corporate firewall/proxyserver and against 'tinyproxy' running on a server I have on the net. Setting the appropriate environment variables worked.

Note that the http proxy stuff is within the python gdata library. If you continue to have problems you should contact the developers at: http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/

It would be nice if the user could select the first week day. I'm Italian, and like most european countries we start counting weekdays from Monday.

I keep getting the following error:

Error: Failed to authenticate with Google Calendar!

I've entered my Google username and password in the .gcalclirc file. Is there any way to see a more verbose error message?

I can get gcalcli to work in a terminal, but when I copy and paste the command above to my conkyrc file it doesn't work.

I can not seem to get gcalcli working. gcalcli --user nianderson --pw password list Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/home/cmdln/bin/gcalcli", line 1114, in ?

DoooooItHippieMonster?()

File "/home/cmdln/bin/gcalcli", line 1025, in DoooooItHippieMonster?

borderColor=borderColor)

File "/home/cmdln/bin/gcalcli", line 303, in init

self.allCals = self.gcal.GetAllCalendarsFeed?()

nm i had an old version of gdata python module. updating does the trick

is there any chance this app can be precompiled to a .exe file and just run it using command line switches? I really dont want to download what seems like 3-4 different things and try to figure out how to set it all up.

Feature request: how do I add event to a non default calendar?

Even examples to use in screen! I love you, this fits my workflow so well!

When using the "quick" option I can only add dates today. The time is interpreted correctly, but the date ist just added to the date description. Example:

python gcalcli quick '8pm 12/04/2007 HSK'

will produce a date TODAY like: Sun Dec 02 8:00pm 12/04/2007 HSK

why is that? How can I get that right? Cheers, Paddy

PatrickBlume?, try using "HSK 12/4 at 8 pm"

Thank you for this magnificent program.

I get a

Error: Failed to authenticate with Google Calendar!'

As well. I've configured my .gcalclirc. Any suggestions?

Hmm. Some digging revealed I was getting a `CaptchaRequired?' exception. Going to https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha and submitting that form fixed it.

I get this error message (with any command basically):

$ gcalcli calm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/wojas/bin/gcalcli", line 1114, in ?
    DoooooItHippieMonster()
  File "/home/wojas/bin/gcalcli", line 1025, in DoooooItHippieMonster
    borderColor=borderColor)
  File "/home/wojas/bin/gcalcli", line 303, in __init__
    self.allCals = self.gcal.GetAllCalendarsFeed()
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/gdata/calendar/service.py", line 77, in GetAllCalendarsFeed
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/gdata/service.py", line 512, in Get
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/gdata/service.py", line 493, in Get
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 381, in GDataFeedFromString

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 94, in CreateClassFromXMLString

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 9475: ordinal not in range(128)

Storing my password in clear text in the config scares me - isn't there a way to use a (md5/sha1/younameit) hash?

2 ross.campbell : try set evn.variable https_proxy, like this: export https_proxy="http://192.168.0.1:8081"

And question: how to set quick reminder for other days, not only for today?

I had almost same probelm with kwojas. I changed my calendar name to blah and it start to work. Old name include letter "ä" so I quess it's some sort of character encoding problem.

What are people doing to secure their password using gcalcli on the Internet? Is it sent in the clear? Also, how do you secure it in the rc file on your computer?

As far as encrypting a password goes: there's no way to decrypt it that won't be trivially decryptable, unless you want to provide a password every time you log in - in which case, why bother storing the password at all.

If the machine you're on is reasonably secure, 600 permissions should be fine.

You can't use md5/sha1/younameit to store your password because those are one way algorithms. There would be no way to get your original password from that text. I store it the config file and ensure the permissions are 600. This is common as many other programs do the same thing (i.e. mutt, msmtp, get/fetchmail come to mind). I've heard a request to add support for gnome-keyring... quick answer, no way.

is this caching the data somewhere in something like .ics? it would be nice to be able to specify how often to actually go fetch the data from google's servers, rather than doing it every time (especially on a laptop when I'm working offline!)

also being able to fetch from google and dump to ics would be useful for things like syncing with a phone, although I see there's a separate project for doing that (http://www.gcalsync.com/)

How can I get rid of all the control characters showing up in the output? (Visa user)

They make the output completely unusable.

Example: ESC?[0m;37m+------------+--------------+ That's what the first line of a "calm" calendar looks like both in the console, and in a textfile opened in Notepad++. I tried swapping between different n*x formats, mac format, windows, etc, different encodings for viewing the file itself, but it had no impact.

Edit to the above: Vista user

I also have the "UnicodeDecodeError??" as some people above had. Unfortunately, I don't even have an umlaut in my calendar's name, only a space. I've changed that, created a brand new calendar to test and still the same unicode error. I have also applied the patch in the issues database, but to no avail.

Any hints? Running gcalcli with python 2.5 on OSX.

@ Jaron.hendrix: Add the switch "--nc" which is for "no colors". The ESC?[3 is for terminal color codes.

Darryl

cool

I had trouble to get the quick add function to work, when I found that google only makes this available if you change the language on the calendar to English. Otherwise it only interpretes the time and adds it within the next 24h.

I keep running into the error:

Error: failed to parse start time

Any help?

To fix problem with Unicode comment these lines (66 and 67)

sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdout)

sys.stdin = codecs.getreader(locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdin)

I like it, though I'm not fond of storing a password in the clear. Since I'm just using this for reading I made a separate gmail account, shared my calendars with it as read only, and use that gmail account for gcalcli. Not ideal, but not bad either.

Hello,

I'm trying your program and I have a problem with --details when the program tries to print all my calendars including details. If I have access to a freebusy calendar the program fails with the following message:

"

File "/home/user/usr/src/Python/gcalcli", line 1114, in <module>

DoooooItHippieMonster??()

File "/home/user/usr/src/Python/gcalcli", line 1040, in DoooooItHippieMonster??

gcal.AgendaQuery??(startText=args1?, endText=args2?)

File "/home/user/usr/src/Python/gcalcli", line 779, in AgendaQuery??

self.PrintEvents??(today, start, eventList)

File "/home/ftricas/usr/src/Python/gcalcli", line 632, in PrintEvents??

if event.where0?.value_string:

IndexError??: list index out of range "

I believe it is because the event has details but not where details. If I put the following code in line 628:

if self.details and event.where:

does, but in this way I'm missing when details. Of course you can check whether there are even.where before checking if you have event.where0?.details and so on....

where is the script file stored ? I do not have an @gmail.com account but an @googlemail.com account so I have to edit the script - but I cant find it !!!!!!!!!!!! please help its driving me metal ...

Found the script in usr/bin/... with all the other scripts - so that is where they have all been hiding - but still unable to get working .. I have given up now good luck - Jonathan

Thank you for this wonderful program. One quick question: Is it possible for the output of the events to show up in Conky or in Terminal using the 24 hour clock format? If so, what is the code to produce that output?

Thanks again!

YO

if i dont have a gmail, what is my username then? my email?

when there will be available to insert a complete event (not just a quick one)? i miss a lot to input all the info in the calendar

i like it very very much!!

BUT: i can't figure out how to let recognize time and date to the program... if i quick "3/4 7pm sport" it puts on tomorrow at the present date... i've tried all... no matter what... still the same... i simply can't figure out... any idea? (i'm on ubuntu jaunty with openbox)

Regarding the discrepancy of times in gcalcli and the google web interface:

Be sure to have an environment variable TZ that reflects your current timezone, eg:

export TZ="Europe/Copenhagen"

For those suffering authentication issues when using .gcalclirc, make sure there is a new line marker at the end of each configuration item e.g.

[gcalclirc]<nl>
user: fred.bloggs<nl>
pw: helpme<nl>

where <nl> is the new line character on your system (typically pressing enter when using your favourite editor...)

If the config file ends at the end of the pw: config line, it appears gcalcli doesn't cope with it.

working well. Would like to show events for the current day only ( agenda Today ) only, how can i do this? Thanks

jonroome - try the following:

gcalcli  agenda `date +%D`  11:55PM

For those who had errors which ends like: UnicodeDecodeError?: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 132: ordinal not in range(128)

Comment out these lines (66-67): # for unicode support sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdout) sys.stdin = codecs.getreader(locale.getpreferredencoding())(sys.stdin)

...and it works!

Is it possible to have the graphical output produced by calw accept a dayrange? The standard 5 days are way too wide for my conky config. Would prefer only 2/3 days.

Wonderful Program. Thanks. Is there any way to edit or delete an event.

@ roni.laukkarinen - Thanks for the tip! @ insanum - Thanks for the script!

Is there a way to get a template or model for the rc config file? I installed gcalcli via aptitude in debian lenny, and the config file is empty. I don't have an example for the syntax to create one.

Wait... Okay, I found the info re the rc above, but now get errors: Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 1114, in <module>

DoooooItHippieMonster?()

File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 959, in DoooooItHippieMonster?

cfg = LoadConfig?(configFile)

File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 881, in LoadConfig?

config.read(os.path.expanduser(configFile))

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser?.py", line 267, in read

self.read(fp, filename)

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser?.py", line 490, in read

raise e

2?: ' user: baldwinlinguas@gmail.com\n' 3?: ' pw: \n'

Nice program! But i have this warning: /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning?: the sha module is deprecated; usethe hashlib module instead

import sha

any suggestion?